AWS Compute Blog
Author: Chris Barclay
Amazon ECS launches new deployment capabilities; CloudWatch metrics; Singapore and Frankfurt regions
Today, we launched two improvements that make it easier to run Docker-enabled applications on Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. The first improvement allows more flexible deployments. […]
Amazon ECS improves console first run experience, ability to troubleshoot Docker errors
Today Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) added a new first run experience that streamlines getting your first containerized application running on ECS. Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS eliminates the […]
Using Amazon EFS to Persist Data from Amazon ECS Containers
My colleagues Jeremy Cowan and Drew Dennis sent a nice guest post that shows how to use Amazon Elastic File System with Amazon ECS. — Docker containers are ideal for building microservices because they’re quick to provision, easily portable, and provide process isolation. While these services are generally ephemeral and stateless, there are times when you […]
Amazon EC2 Container Service at AWS re:Invent – Wrap-up
We wanted to summarize a few of the highlights from this year’s AWS re:Invent. Announcements On Thursday October 8, Werner Vogels announced three new features for Amazon ECS: The Amazon EC2 Container Service CLI (Amazon ECS CLI) makes it easier to set up an Amazon ECS cluster and its associated resources (e.g., EC2 instances) and enables a […]
How to create a custom scheduler for Amazon ECS
My colleague Daniele Stroppa sent a nice guest post that shows how to create a custom scheduler for Amazon ECS. — Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS takes […]
Amazon ECS launches agent updates, task definition deregistration, environment variable overrides
We are pleased to announce the availability of several of our most requested features: Agent Update You now have an automated way to update the ECS agents that run on the EC2 instances in your clusters. The agent is the interface between ECS and Docker that enables operations such as starting containers and reporting status. This improvement […]
Running an Amazon ECS Task on Every Instance
My colleague Matt McClean sent a nice guest post that demonstrates how to start a task on every ECS instance in a cluster. —– Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon […]
Scaling Amazon ECS Services Automatically Using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
On May 18, 2016 Amazon ECS launched support for Service Auto Scaling. This provides a simpler method to automatically scale tasks in an ECS service. Read about it in the documentation. AWS Partner Classmethod contributed this great blog that shows how to use Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda to create a scaling function for Amazon […]
Amazon EC2 Container Service is now generally available
We would like to announce the general availability of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS). Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Running a container on a single machine demonstrates Docker’s power and […]